The Games Climbers Play“This is no ordinary mountaineering anthology. Never has quite such a diversity of hard-driving narrative and strident argument been packed between one pair of covers for its first hardback outing..."

The Mountain Spirit“This is an unsatisfactory book. Its purpose is a syncretic views of men's intellectual, spiritual, and artistic relationship with the mountain as landscape or image ..."

This Climbing Game“The idea of an anthology of climbing humour is a good one, supported by a tradition and wealth of witty words from climbing writers over the decades. Walt Unsworth has selected some good articles, many of which have only recently re-appeared in other anthologies, giving it a strong dose of a déja-vu.(...)"